I am SO happy! It’s done. It also widened my “skill set” (and doesn’t look like I totally didn’t know what I was doing) – I machine embroidered the blue piece on the back and did binding around it. Nope, I hadn’t done any of that!
Yay! It’s together and lines up! (this is NOT a small acheivement for me!). However, the quilt store wasn’t open today (when will small quilt shops ever learn we QUILT on the weekend! Ugh!).Anyway, closer and closer! YAY!Thanks a ton to Rhonda who helped me figure out how to clean
****NOTE***** Do you ever write a post and for some bizarre reason, NOT post it? This is one of those. It’s OLD (April 08) but honestly kind of a cool post and both bits of info are still interesting. So, here goes: I think this post goes under the “really
“It was a dark and story night…” but luckily, tonight I went to a book signing with Jennifer Chiaverini – who writes the “Elm Creek Quilt” novel series. Great books and I must say she was really nice, knowledgable and everything you expect a favorite writer to be! With the
I am done with the cat quilt blocks. I don’t have any desire to count the inches of button hole stitch, but I can tell you it will be a long time before I use it in a project again!I started piecing it today and ran into technical difficulties (I
We just got back from a wonderful trip to South Dakota and I really enjoyed the time in the car stitching. Some of you may remember the book cover I’m working on. I just hated the design on the one side, I tried to dye it, and all sorts of
OK, so, as mentioned in my last post, I had my Crazy quilting Groups class today and learned how to do these spectacular flowers! There are more to come, but this was the first one…fairly easy and pretty spiffy results, eh? It’s done with peyote stitch. Then, my round robin
I’ve talked about the International Quilt Study Center’s quilt of the month, but this month I gasped when I opened this one by M. Joan Lintault – gorgeous! (there’s a close up on the site by the way) This is what really got me: “In her pieces Lintault employs an
I have been trying to organizing my blogging – all attempts at which seem to fail. However, I’m going to try to record some of my favorite sites that I visit regularly on the net. Of course these sites range from parenting sites (oooo, found a new one at Geek
Normally the Quilt of the month site does more conservative quilts, but if you love to look at quilts (because you make them or admire them) there’s lots of room to “ooo and ahhh” over these fabulous Quilts. I really like this one but the close ups don’t really do